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Archive for October, 2006
Uninstalling Windows OneCare in Vista RC2
Oct 14th
I upgraded my home PC to Vista today from XP Mediacenter edition and earlier this week I had an email that the new OneCare 1.5 beta was released and “NOW WORKS WITH VISTA”. So I figured I’d install the new version of OneCare.
First, you have to uninstall OneCare before installing a new version, the problem is trying to uninstall OneCare I kept getting an error ’0×2′. DOH!
So here’s the trick to uninstalling OneCare (courtesy of this link).
- Download the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility: msicuu2.exe
- Run this program. If it doesn’t run/install right click on it and select “Run as Administrator”. That solved this step for me.
- After installed, run this utility by going to: Start -> All Programs -> Windows Installer Cleanup.
- ‘Cleanup’ all of these apps. If you don’t see them all don’t work, I only had 3 or 4 of them:
Dr Watson for Microsoft Windows OneCare Live
Microsoft Windows OneCare Live
Microsoft Protection Service
PX Engine
Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Files
Microsoft Malware Protection On Access Scanner Try to uninstall onecare and if it fails then proceed to step 6.
Download the Windows Live OneCare uninstall program: 48034
Run the uninstall program you just downloaded, rightclicking and running it as admin if it fails. Now the first time I ran this my box bluescreened (yeah they still exist go figure!) but when it rebooted and I ran it again, it ran without a problem and uninstalled the app without a problem.
That’s it that’s how I managed to uninstall OneCare from within Vista RC2 (Build 5744)
Windows Live Writer Style Not Updated
Oct 11th
I recently installed the WordPress Category Visibility Plug-in which allows you to select categories you don’t want to show up in different places on your blog. I have delicious set to upload my delicious links every day to a special category and I removed it from the frontpage to keep it from junking up my blog. I also set the default category so that all of these entries would be entered in their own category and this is the category I don’t display on the homepage. Well, shortly after this change I updated my blog template and when I went to update my Windows Live Writer so it would show new posts using the new template it failed, and failed and failed. I really couldn’t figure it out.
Well today I went to check my delicious links and found all the temp posts that WLW uses when it’s trying to determine your blog’s style (very cool actually). Turns out the problem was that these posts weren’t displaying on the homepage but instead in my delicious category and also weren’t getting deleted (I have like 50 temp posts in there). I turned the default category back to “Uncategorized” and set it to display on the homepage and presto! WLW works again. I suspect I’m not the only one having this issue so I hope this helps someone else.
I got ICONIZED! Yeap, I’m now a desktop cartoon character
Oct 6th
I read an article recently about www.iconizeme.com. For $50 they’d take a picture of you and create an icon out of it. Think of it as a digital cariacture. Well, I couldn’t resist it. $50 is a lot of money for this, no question about it but it’s just too cool of a concept to not do it.
Here’s the original image
and here’s the generated image.
The artist that did the work was Jose Ramos and I’d highly recommend him.
BTW, now that I have a digitized picture of myself, the FUN begins. First there’s the icon at the top of the browser. It used to be that horribly ugly greentree from communityserver, now it’s my goodlooking mug:
Yeah, it’s amazing the smaller the picture gets the better looking I get? Go figure!
Then there’s … the “Jess Coburn Fan Shop“!! Yes it’s a good time here at JessCoburn.com and we everyone wants to show the love. So thanks to cafepress.com we have the following great products available now:
Then there’s the ladies favorite:
Yeah, I don’t think too many people out there want a Jess Coburn G-String but hey you never know!
Anyway, all this is made possible thanks to www.iconizeme.com and www.cafepress.com
